Completed Research Grants

BUILDSPACE: Enabling Innovative Space-driven Services for Energy Efficient Buildings and Climate Resilient Cities

Sponsor: Horizon Europe, European Commission, EU

Jan 2023 - Jan 2026

RESTOR: Reuse of Structural Steel in Construction

Sponsor: Eng. & Physical Sciences Res. Council, UK

Oct 2022 - Oct 2025

OMICRON: Towards a more automated and optimised maintenance, renewal and upgrade of roads by means of robotised technologies and intelligent decision support tools

Sponsor: H2020, European Commission, EU

Digital Roads Prosperity Partnership EPSRC IAA award

Sponsor: Eng. & Physical Sciences Res. Council (EPSRC)

Digital Roads Prosperity Partnership Additional Allocation

Sponsor: Depart for Science, Innovation and Technology via EPSRC

BIM2TWIN: Optimal Construction Management & Production Control

Sponsor: H2020, European Commission, EU       

CBIM: Cloud Building Information Modelling European Training Network

Sponsor: MSCA, European Commission, EU

Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship: Digital Twin for the Built Environment

Sponsor: TUM - Institute for Advanced Study

PointPix: A better, more efficient way to raw spatial and visual data

Sponsor: BP, LOR, Trimble, Topcon, GeoSLAM, and CSIC

NRFIS Equipment Grant

Sponsor: UKCRIC National Research Facility for Infra. Sensing

Automated BIM Generation of Existing and Under Construction Railways

Sponsor: Bentley Systems UK Ltd.

AI-Optimised Pathways for Schedule Execution

Sponsor: InnovateUK

Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure (DAFNI) Hardware

Sponsor: EPSRC through the University of Oxford                  

Automatic Construction Monitoring Through Semantic  Information Modelling

Sponsor: Discovery Grants, Australian Research Council      

Top-down As-is Modelling of Industrial Facilities

Sponsor: Eng. & Physical Sciences Res. Council (EPSRC) & Laing O’Rourke Plc.

Digitising the Built Environment

Sponsor: Leverhulme Trust Int. Fellowship & TUM Vis. Professorship

The Airship Drone

Sponsor: EPSRC, Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction

A Robot for Flexible Re-Prefabrication

Sponsor: Trimble Fund

Damage Detection for Bridge Condition Assessment

Sponsor: Trimble Europe BV

SeeBridge: Automated Compilation of Semantically Rich BIM Models of Bridges

Sponsor: ERA.NET Infravation, European Commission, EU

Digitally Enabling the DfMA & Maintenance of Bridges

Sponsor: InnovateUK

Computer Vision Automated Productivity Measurement

Sponsor: Eng. & Physical Sciences Res. Council (EPSRC) & Laing O’Rourke Plc.

CIG: Automated As-Built Modelling of the Built Infrastructure

Sponsor: Marie Curie Actions, European Commission, EU

3D Digital Information Model Creation

Sponsor: EPSRC, Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction 

BIM Plus

Sponsor: EPSRC, Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction

Stereo Vision for Cultural Heritage Mapping

Sponsor: Historic Scotland, UK                                        

Urban Scale Building Energy Network

Sponsor: Eng. & Physical Sciences Res. Council, UK

Reciprocal Reconstruction and Recognition for Modelling of

Constructed Facilities

Sponsor: National Science Foundation, USA

Collaboration for Research & Education in Auto-Generation of Building

Information Models

Sponsor: Marie Curie Actions, European Commission, EU

Pavement Assessment Feasibility Study with Costain Ltd.

Sponsor: EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (IAA)  

Bridge Strike

Sponsor: London Underground & EPSRC CSIC 

CAREER: Visual Pattern Recognition Models for Remote Sensing of Civil Infrastructure

Sponsor: National Science Foundation, USA

I-Corps: Videogrammetric Roof Surveying System for Dig. Fab. Of Sheet Metal Roof Panels

Sponsor: National Science Foundation, USA

Machine Vision Enhanced Post Earthquake Inspection & Rapid Loss Estimation

Sponsor: National Science Foundation, USA 

SBIR: A Novel Video Based Software Application for Automatic & Accurate Roof Surveying

Sponsor: National Science Foundation, USA

RP 11-12 Training and Certification for Construction Inspectors

Sponsor: Georgia Department of Transportation, Forest Park, GA

Videogrammetric Building Wireframe Calculator for Sheet Metal Forming Operations

Sponsor: Metalforming Inc., Peachtree City, GA

Optical Surveyor

Sponsor: Georgia Research Alliance, Atlanta, GA

Comparison of Image- & Time-of-Flight-Based Tech. for 3D Reconstructing As-Built Infrastructure

Sponsor: Tekla & GT Digital Building Laboratory

IREE: Automated Vision Tracking of Project Related Entities

Sponsor: National Science Foundation, USA

Automated Vision Tracking of Project Related Entities

Sponsor: National Science Foundation, USA

GRS: Progressive Site Modelling with Videogrammetry

Sponsor: National Science Foundation, USA

Progressive Site Modelling with Videogrammetry

Sponsor: National Science Foundation, USA

RFID in Productivity Assessment of High-Rise Renovation Projects

Sponsor: Skanska USA, Atlanta, GA

Intelligent Computing: Challenges and Opportunities

Sponsor: American Society of Civil Engineers, USA

RAPID: Urgent Coll. of Perishable Cond. Data from Structures Affected by Haiti E/quake

Sponsor: National Science Foundation, USA